Brock Purdy or Woody Marks: who should I start in Week 6?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Brock Purdy at 22.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 1st highest figure of the 131 players the market prices.

The player markets price Woody Marks at 12.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 32nd highest figure of the 131 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Purdy: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Woody Marks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 19th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 97 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 156 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 20 of 156 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.

In Week 3 against ARI he completed 15 of 27 passes for 297 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 35 yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he completed 19 of 29 passes for 218 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 31 yards.

In Week 5 against SEA he completed 19 of 29 passes for 189 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 8 yards.

Through Week 5, Woody Marks has been on the field for 53 percent of HOU snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 0.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against IND he carried 5 times for 15 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against DAL he carried 6 times for 22 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against TEN he carried 15 times for 62 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Purdy played 9 games and scored 187.4 PPR points, 20.8 a game, finishing QB24.

He threw for 2167 yards on 284 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 31.6 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Woody Marks played 16 games and scored 151.1 PPR points, 9.4 a game, finishing RB29.

He carried 196 times for 703 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 36 targets for 208 more yards.

That came to 12.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Woody Marks was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Woody Marks 9.4, 11.4 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Woody Marks RB29, which are two different ladders.

Brock Purdy is a quarterback and Woody Marks a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Woody Marks is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Brock Purdy.

What would change the answer

9.8 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.